RightNow Media Parenting Resources

By Adrea Daane
I spent part of my week doing research on parenting resources in RightNow Media.  With so many options I began to get overwhelmed.  After watching several hours of materials, I came up with two different resources that I found to be the most helpful and engaging.  Now, these might not be for you, and if not, I encourage you to do a little research yourself and see what interests you.  As parents we are given the most important opportunity…to shape these little people into adults who love Jesus and grow into people who lead lives that are pleasing to Him.  This is a daily struggle for myself and I’m guessing others feel like they’re stuck or failing miserably.   These resources, although they didn’t change my parenting overnight, gave me some confidence in who I should try to be as a parent in the eyes of God. 

The first resource I dove into was “Have a New Kid By Friday”.  This was a great 5-day resource that gave great insights into “why your kids do what they do and what you can do about it”.  This program looked into how to change your child’s attitude, behavior, and character in 5 days and focused on how as parents we need to change our parenting and in doing so, can impact our children.

“Intentional Parenting” by Doug Fields was the second resource I found to be helpful.  This video series was shorter in length and focused on how as parents we tend to fall back onto quick fix parenting when we should be more intentional.  Doug took me through a five-session course where he discussed his 10 ways in which we as parents can and should become more intentional.  During each episode my heart was invigorated, and my spirit was lifted into taking on this new challenge.  Now comes the hard part…putting those lessons into action and not just putting them in my mental shelves of knowledge. 
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I challenge each of you as parents, if you’re looking for some encouragement or guidance in your parenting, to go to RightNow and do some digging.  Keeping Jesus at the center of how you parent and the focus of your home is crucial to building up little people in Christ.  I know this is something I want to continue to push myself to be better at, because it’s not just affecting me…it’s affecting my kiddos too.